Writer / Editor / Creative

Until recently, Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights neighborhood was a rather sleepy area of stately co-ops and quiet brownstone blocks. Since the 2012 opening of the Barclay’s Center, an indoor sports and concert arena, the neighborhood has been rapidly evolving. As in nearby Park Slope, proximity to Prospect Park — a 585-acre oasis designed by Central Park landscape architects, Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux — makes the area attractive for families. Now, younger Brooklynites are discovering its charms. And restaurants, cafés and boutiques are turning central thoroughfares, like Vanderbilt Avenue, into hip destinations.

Monuments and museums are on proud display on Eastern Parkway, the southern border of Prospect Heights. At Grand Army Plaza, you’ll find the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch (erected in 1892 to commemorate the Civil War), Prospect Park’s elegant main entrance and, on Saturdays, a farmers’ market. Walk east and you’ll come to the massive central Brooklyn Public Library and the Beaux Arts Brooklyn Museum, which holds the second largest collection of art in New York. Pre-war apartment buildings, with regal names and gorgeous park views, stand along the north side of Eastern Parkway.

Douglas Wright is a freelance writer/editor & creative producer based in Brooklyn, NY with a focus on speechwriting, advertising, branded content, internal marketing campaigns, film & television, arts, travel, and general news.

He is a former small-town New England reporter who has worked in the NYC media industry for the past decade as a speechwriter, creative director, travel editor for Condé Nast, and founder/fiction editor for the literary arts magazine Exit Strata.

His articles have been featured in Budget Travel, NewYork.com, Popular Science, All About Jazz, MSNBC, CNN, AOL Travel, Lakes Region Weekly, American Journal, and Concierge.com (the online companion of Conde Nast Traveler) among others.